Rick Perry was in Iowa yesterday and said he’d learned his lesson from his failed 2012 presidential campaign, the Des Moines Register reports.
Said Perry: “I parachuted in here and I didn’t give Iowans an opportunity to get to know who I was and talk to them about the issues. I will not make that mistake again.”
The Houston Chronicle reports Perry “has brought on board four longtime Republican operatives to help him assemble a likely 2016 presidential campaign in Iowa.”
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